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May I avert the pain of hunger and thirst with showers of food and drink. May I become both drink and food for the immediate aeons of famine. May I be inexhaustible treasure for impoverished beings. May I wait upon…

I wrote this the night before taking the Precepts in Sri Lanka, July 2014 and repeated and re-committed to it everyday since. This is what a constant, rigorous spiritual practice means to me. I am responsible for the cultivation…

I have finally realized, often the road and experience away from something is as beautiful as the journey to it. See for yourself, click below and turn up your volume: Tyler and Bhante leaving the monastery in Big Sur More?…

My friend wrote on one of those giant post-it notes that presenters use and stuck it to the door in my office. It says “You are not usual”. It’s somehow remained sticking up there for nearly 10 years. I look…

I recently wrote about my new years commitment of Three Steps, One Bow. I’ve had a bunch of inquiry about what I really meant, what I’m talking about. Some people get it instantly. Some think they got it but want…

I’m an epic, legendary over achiever. Why? To be seen. To create. Running from some old wound in my soul. Divinely inspired. Because I just am. Who knows. Anyway, for a long time I’ve been working on how to…

There comes a time in every mans life when he arrives at the conviction that he must take himself for better or for worse as his portion; That though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing…